Improvement in animal-trap



thtitrd gelaten inw-'t @Wire Letters- Patent N 93,533, dated August 10, ,1869.

The Schedule referred to in theseLetters-Patent and making partici' the sama To all whom it may concern y 1 Be it known that lf, GEORGE H aNnLIxn, of Akron, in the county of Summit, and State of Ohio, have i-nvented certain new and 'usefirl Improvements in an Ani- .mal-',lrap; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full :.mil'colnplete description of the same, refer-v eneebeing had to the accompanying drawings, mak- -ing nartof this specification, in which- Figurel is a top View of' the trap unset. Figure 2, a side view of the same.v

Figure 3, a perspective view ofthe trap when set. f'

Like letters oi' reference refer to like .parts in vthe different views.

This invention relates to a steel-trap, so constructed.

that the falls lor jaws fall down upon the animal in'- stead of being sprung upward, thereby rendering said trap more certain in itspurpose Ythan the ordinary steel or gin-trap.

1n fig. 3,',A represents the base or ring of the trap, to which the jaws or 'falls B B' are pivoted at the points u., as shown in fig. 1

Said jaws, as will be seen, are selnicireularin 'figure, and corresponding inf size to thekring A', to which they are pivoted, and on which theyy fall when the trap .is-sprung, asshowu in iig. l.

C is a spring, the extreme ends of which are formed into a loop or ring, D, through which, as will be'seen,

passes the, ring A, and when the jaws are sprung, ein-- braces the ends ofthe same, as shown in fig. 1'.

Y In the crown ot' the jaw B is securedloos'ely a trip, E, the upper end of which fornis aV hook, b, whereas the lower end terini'nn-tesfin a sharp point, to which is attached the bait F. v

The manner of setting this trap is as follows:

The limbs of the spring arepressed together, as

I .shown in iig. 3, this will allow the jaws to be elerated and brought together,I asV shown in the drawing, and are secured in this position by the hook b referred to, 4said hook being caught upon the outer side of the nib 0 on the jaw B, thereby holding together the two jaws in the position as shown in ltig. 3, in which it will be seen that the trip descends into the middle of the ringinnnediately under'the uprais'ed falls. The trap, as thus baited and set, is shoivn in iig. 3.

It will be Obvious that the animal cannot reach the Vbait without coming under the uplifted jaws B, and

across the ring A. Now, as Athe creature nibbles the bait, the hook thereby becomes dislodged from the nib,

"and the expansion of thesprings throws down the jaws upon the back of the'animal, which is instantly killed, or confined between the fall and ring.

.ln the ordinary spring or steel trap, the jaws throw upward, and, not unfrequently, throw the animal, if va small one, off from the trap, or it is caught by the limbs,whic.h are either out off,`o`r so mutilated, that the animal tears or eats them off, and thus escapes. This, however, cannot happen to this trap,'as the jaws fall down uponthe animal and kill it at once,fand hence this trap'is much more reliable, andtherefore useful. j i

'-What- I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, isi The jaws B B' and trip E, as arranged, in combination with the ring A, and Aoperate/d bythe spring C, .inthe manner substantially as described, and for 'the purpose sot forth.

`GEORGE HANELINE.

Witnesses:

1I. H. BURnrDe-rn, l). L. HUMPHREY. 

